400 PPM CO2 Concentration Announcement Unleashes Wave Of Mass Hysteria In Germany

Watching the reaction from the greens, media, climate scientists, and a number of politicians here in Germany reminds me of the time when I was in 6th grade and a friend of mine and I threw a dead mouse in a group of 3rd grade schoolgirls out on the school yard. That sent them off in all directions screaming hysterically. 🙂

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Well that’s pretty much the reaction we’ve seen with many of the adults (grown men) here in Germany when Scripps announced that CO2 concentration had reached the 400 ppm level. You see, the day before when the concentration was 399.99 ppm, everybody was just going about their business; life was normal. But when the CO2 concentration reached 400 ppm, the gates of hell opened.

As one of the few calm people here, I now find myself busy dispensing on-site counseling to the emotionally shocked and hysterical in the report’s aftermath, and so I don’t have so much time. But here’s some reaction we’ve seen over the last few hours from the media, greens and “leading scientists”:

Green party honcho, drama-queen Dr. Herrmann Ott:

Exceeding the 400 ppm threshold of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere symbolizes the drama of galloping climate change and the threats to our civilization connected with it. […] To avert the unimaginable consequences of a continued dramatic increase in CO2, immediate and effective climate protection must have top priority!”

The leftist daily TAZ quoted Ralph Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego [translated, not the original quote]:

‘We are moving into dangerous territory,’ said Ralph Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. […] In his view the efforts to reduce CO2 have failed. Some impacts of climate change are now irreversible.”

The centrist online FOCUS magazine wrote:

The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has reached a historical high. […] Policymakers have to finally take action.”

Stephan Bakan of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg (via klimaretter.de):

The climate models show that independent of short-term fluctuations, the global mean temperature of the lower atmosphere continues to rise with increasing CO2 concentration. With every increase we are moving towards the 450ppm level. And the time remaining for effective emissions reduction reduces accordingly.”

450 ppm? At least now we know when to expect the next outbreak of mass hysteria.

Jelle Bijma of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research in Bremerhaven, reported by klimaretter.de):

With this we surpass the 400 ppm mark for the first time in 25 million years. […] The Earth’s climate does not fundamentally react to the rise in CO2 in a linear fashion, explained Bijma. However there seems to be a relationship: The continued increase in greenhouse gas concentration as a whole strengthens the tendency to warming of the atmosphere. The higher the CO2 concentration, the graver are the consequences of climate change.”

The German Green Party wrote at their site:

Reaching the 400 ppm mark and the foreseeable increase in CO2 concentrations mean a much warmer world, and foremost a more volatile world connected with a sea level that is meters higher. […] It has probably been 3 million years since CO2 concentrations have been so high. […] To avert the consequences of a further dramatic increase in CO2 emissions, we must immediately and effectively protect the climate.”

There’s much more of course. But I’ve got to get back to calming the hysterical here. I’m telling them that over the Earth’s history CO2 have meandered over a broad range of 180 ppm to as high as 7000 ppm. At 150 life really starts having problems. During the ice ages we were dangerously low, below 200 ppm. At 400 ppm we now at least have a small buffer against extinction.

At the moment they are blocking it all out, of course. But tomorrow when they wake up, they will see that the earth is still there. It’s a slow process that moves one step at a time. They’ll wake up 5 mornings in a row, then do so for a whole year, and then for a decade, and more, and the world will still be there. Most by then will have relaxed and returned to a functional life.

 

6 responses to “400 PPM CO2 Concentration Announcement Unleashes Wave Of Mass Hysteria In Germany”

  1. Juergen Uhlemann

    The German Green Party wrote at their site:
    “… the oldest human Fund is about 200,000 years old and the Arctic was ice free”

    Ice free? Do they not read what they write?

    1. DirkH

      “Das war vor der Entstehung des Menschen – der älteste menschliche Fund ist etwa 200.000 Jahre alt- und die Arktis war zu dieser Zeit noch eisfrei.”

      Well I thought they were atheists and evolutionists; so their belief system should tell them that there were creatures pretty similar to humans before that time.

      And of course, numbers and the Greens are natural enemies; the Schöningen spears, found 30 km from my hometown, are dated to 300,000 years of age.
      http://www.palaeon.de/schoeninger-speere.html

      Those were tools by Homo heidelbergensis ; do they not count as humans? Racists!

  2. L Michael Hohmann

    Oh dear, oh dear – spaceship Earth was it seems some 4 to 8degC warmer than today, some 4 million years ago – nowhere is it said ‘why?’ – and in consequence CO2 levels rose to 400 parts per million, that’s 0.04% of the atmosphere – and all without any human presence, let alone any Watt, Otto or Diesel engines! Since Earth and Sun between them can do all that by themselves, why should human coal and oil fires suddenly have the sole responsibility for ‘Climate’ temperature? And why 4 million ago? That’s 40 glacials which very likely went through similarly warming interglacials in between – so what’s new?

    To put things into perspective, we should perhaps consider what Dr Pierre R Latour [noted for his engineering prowess in helping design and develop the docking system for NASA’s Apollo space mission] reminds us of:
    “If you discover glacial cycles have a period of about 100,000 years with an interglacial period of about 15,000, your discovery has been made already.
    If you realize Chicago is covered by an ice sheet >1 mile thick 85% of the time, you get it.
    If you realize humanity prospers during interglacials, not glacials, you get it.
    If you discover Earth’s temperature has stabilized at a local high since 1998, you can expect it to begin cooling soon. Maybe -15C. Because a new glacial has begun.
    If you accept Lucy walked around Kenya 3 million years ago, you can conclude your ancestors survived 3,000,000/100,000 = 30 glacials. Her ancestors appeared about 7 million years ago so they survived 4,000,000/100,000 = 40 more glacials. 30 + 40 = 70.
    If you have enough faith in current humanity to believe we will survive at least one more = 100,000 years (year 102,013) you are a climate realist.
    Remedy? Invest in property near the Equator. This is not good or bad news, it’s just news. Don’t be provocative. Have a fabulous day. Breathe your CO2 easy.”

    1. Juergen Uhlemann

      I’m sure humanity will survive another glacial period but a lot of people have to move closer to the equator.

  3. jbenson2

    Do these CO2 alarmists have a soluton for controlling China’s construction of coal fired electrical plants? China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s largest emitter of gases that are warming the planet.

    China has an additional 363 plants planned. India is planning a whoppin g455 plants.

    1. DirkH

      No. But in every German article where they demand more control over the life of Germans and other Westerners, they happily proclaim that “China is making great progress” so that problem obviously solves itself because the Chicoms are such good people, and warmists to start with; don’t worry.

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